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PlayerBlock Lets You Know if Your Date is a Player

PlayerBlock is an SMS-based service that lets you check up on your date to see if he's a player. OK, I guess girls can be players too... This service appears to revolve around phone numbers, so in order to find out about your date, you type in their phone number to see if you can dig up any dirt.

All the information found through PlayerBlock is user-generated, so in order to find any information on a date, someone else must have dated them first, and written a report on them. Likewise, you're encouraged to dish the dirt on your dates. As this is primarily a text-messaging service, it makes it that much easier to get reports and give reports while you're on the actual date. You can also enter a number to be "watched," meaning you'll receive an update on that person once a new entry has been added.

As funny as this all sounds, I can't even begin to imagine what kind of privacy issues will arise if certain groups catch wind of PlayerBlock. There don't seem to be any measures taken to protect people's real names, and the association of dates with their phone numbers seems problematic, considering the possibility of someone changing phone numbers over the course of even three years.

Maybe PlayerBlock will get sued by that one person that found a particularly scathing report of their dating "performance" and then PlayerBlock will really take off in popularity, right? Another service that lets you use your cell phone to your advantage is YouMail, offering up customized voicemail greetings.

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